Set your desktop to plain black and it is 100% invisible. Or install one of the several free 3rd party apps to give the menu bar a black background. I have dark mode anyway, so used the first option.
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Set your desktop to plain black and the notch is 100% invisible. Or install one of the several free 3rd party apps to give the menu bar a black background. I have dark mode anyway, so used the first option.
No idea why anyone would have only 256GB SSD anyway, but whatever.
Even worse, it has transistors, resistors, and capacitors in it, that stuff is well over 50 years old. What a rip off!!!
Apple Store is down now… maybe we are getting lucky and preorders are opening tonight!
You want eye strain and weight try using a laptop from the 1990's. There was a guy yesterday unsure whether or not to buy a 14" MBP because apparently he's 'hypersensitive' to blooming. Good grief. Y'all never had it so good in terms of choice, specification and quality.
I struggle to figure out how these kind of folks would have managed 25 years ago, yet somehow us old gits all managed just fine.
No war, people against the notch have no argument when they are reminded the alternative is a thicker bezel at the top.
I think the best option for the air is the 8 core gpu version.. it will draw less power and heat less..
not sure, but personally i'd take 720p over a notch any day as i think 720p is perfectly fine for video conferences and the benefits being notch-less for most other tasks mainly outweigh the slightly inferior video call quality - at least for me.
Having said that, i am not the biggest opponent of the notch either, but i still don't think it's really worth it.
if you are planning to start shooting professional photos or movies on it, it obviously will be bad for this though.
edit: just checked, and the laptops i had in mind have 720p cameras
Ugh, the aluminum! What a nerve! That stuff has been around, for, like centuries, at least!
WTF, Glass goes back thousands of years before Christ. This is unacceptable. The Emperor must be informed immediately.
This is outrageous.
How dare you attack me with facts that I could have easily found 🤣
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MacRumors posted a follow-up vid saying that other youtube creators are getting the opposite result and its likely if a bunch of others are getting the opposite result they are probably right.
Coming from an Intel based 13" MacBook Pro this should be a huge jump in performance. I am very interested in a BTO with 24GB of memory and 1TB of storage.
Actually, those base LCDs worked just fine back then. Low res, fewer colors, etc., but they didn’t try to play games in software to make the hardware appear more capable than it was.
naw, I'd take bezels over a notch any day.
notches aren't worth all the problems that they cause - plus they're just hideous... 😝
You could also have a smaller screen, with the menu bar needlessly eating up about 64 pixels of vertical real estate.
"Problems that notches cause?" Care to expand on that? I really see none at all.
They probably don't own a MacBook with a notch so they have no idea how it actually is in real world use. Much like the majority of the complainers.